After Trump : reconstructing the presidency /
Bob Bauer and Jack L. Goldsmith.
- Washington, DC : Lawfare Press, 2020
- xi, 422 pages ; 23 cm
Reconstructing the presidency Part I, The President. Foreign state influence ; Financial conflicts of interest ; Tax disclosure ; The press ; The pardon power Part II, President-Justice Department relations. Justice Department independence ; The Special Counsel ; The bureaucracy against the President ; Investigating past administrations ; The White House Counsel Part III: The President and Congress. War powers and nuclear weapons ; Vacancies reform ; Other reforms Conclusion Appendix A. Summaries of reform proposals Appendix B. Texts of selected proposed reforms
In this book, Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith provide a comprehensive roadmap for reform of the presidency in the post-Trump era. In fourteen chapters they offer more than fifty concrete proposals concerning presidential conflicts of interest, foreign influence on elections, pardon power abuse, assaults on the press, law enforcement independence, Special Counsel procedures, FBI investigations of presidents and presidential campaigns, the role of the White House Counsel, war powers, control of nuclear weapons, executive branch vacancies, domestic emergency powers, how one administration should examine possible crimes by the president of a prior administration, and more
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